was a large shell covered with black velvet, and adorned with silver trimmings. Three bronzed urns stood on this shell,
each bearing in silver letters a name of the illustrious dead--CALHOUN, CLAY, WEBSTER. This long, black-velvet
covered and draped base supported a tall black-velvet and silver trimmed canopy, reared on slight corner uprights, with
a nodding black plume at each corner, and a gilt eagle surmounting the whole. Two bronze eagles couchant adorned the
sides of the car, occupying its entire length. The Car was richly draped throughout with black velvet, edged with gold
and silver lace and fringes, and with the names Of CALHOUN, CLAY and WEBSTER, in large silver letters on the
broad draperies on either side which hung to the ground. Six grey horses, covered with black velvet housings, which
were studded with silver stars, and stamped with shields containing the arms of South Carolina, Kentucky and
Massachusetts, drew this splendid Car slowly along, each horse being led by a colored groom clad in mourning. A
military guard of honor marched in single file, with shouldered muskets, on each side of the Car. It consisted of six men
from the U. S. Artillery corps, six from the Legion, six from the Battalion of Artillery, and fifteen from the Washington
Regiment, thirty-three men in all, under Major Soria. The pall bearers, thirty-one in number, representing the different
States of the Union, marched in single file, just next to the Car, some inside the guard of honor, and the others behind.